S14 EP4: Hour 2 - Fact Checkers Delenda Est
The Erick Erickson Show
Erick Erickson
4.5 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:42.4 | Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our Two. |
| 0:44.2 | Greetings, conversationalists. |
| 0:45.5 | It's Eric Erickson here. |
| 0:47.0 | Delighted to have you with me. The phone number, 877, 973745, if you want to be on the program. |
| 0:56.0 | It is the horrific pictures coming out of Los Angeles and Southern California. |
| 1:03.0 | Just absolutely awful. |
| 1:06.0 | I know a lot of people who have, they're seeing destruction, they've got family and friends out |
| 1:12.5 | there. It's just sad. Pray for these people. Goodness gracious. I got to talk about the fact checkers |
| 1:21.3 | a little more. I mentioned this a little bit yesterday. |
| 1:33.6 | Nate Silver has a piece I want to get to on the fact checkers and the Washington Free Beacon has a piece. |
| 1:42.3 | But I want to tell you a little more expansively, my issue with fact checking that involves me personally on two fronts. |
| 1:46.4 | Because I actually think here's what happened. |
| 1:51.0 | The press started to lose people's trust. |
| 2:05.6 | So what the press did is they decided to start doing fact checking to try to control the narrative. It never was about telling people what was true. It was about telling people what the press wanted you to believe was true. |
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